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Mr. Gardner has taken this rather scarce pug occasionally 

 about Hartlepool. The larva feeds on Atriplex and Cheno- 

 podium, and the species should occur where these are abundant. 

 The Rev. H. Harper Crewe thinks it rather prefers the banks 

 of tidal rivers. 



121. E, vulgata, Haw Common Pug. 



Eupithecia vulgata. Staint. Man., vol. ii , p. 89. 

 ,, ,, Newm. Brit. Moths, p. 135. 



Tephroclystis ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 188. 



Laeva. Buck., vol.viii., pi. cxxxiii., fig. 5 ; 0. Wils., pi. xxv., 



fig. 8. 

 Perhaps the commonest of the pugs, though records are few ; 

 I expect it occurs in all parts of the district except the higher 

 moorland. Mr. Pinlay found it common in Meldon Park ; Mr. 

 Henderson got it at Jesmond. Mr. Hedworth reported it 

 common everywhere in the Derwent Valley. Mr. Backhouse 

 got it at Hoffall Wood, near Durham; Mr. Stephenson found 

 it common at South Shields; Newcastle and Darlington are 

 ''Manual" localities. Mr. Greenwell got it at Bishop Auck- 

 land. It is very common about Hartlepool It sits on palings 

 by the railway side, and on tree trunks in the Dene. A large 

 number of plants are given on which the larva will feed. The 

 ''Manual" says Golden Rod and Willow. Newman, White- 

 thorn. Meyrick, Hawthorn, Senecio, and Rubus. Owen Wilson 

 says Oak and Whitethorn, and the Rev H. Harper Crewe, 

 Whitethorn. I have found it regularly among low plants, and 

 did not think it very particular in its food. 



122. E, absynthiata, Linn. Wormwood Pug. 



Eupithecia absynthiata. Staint. Man., vol. ii., p. 89. 

 ,, ,, Newm. Brit. Moths, p. 136. 



Tephroclystis alsinthiata. Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 187. 



Laeva. Buck., vol. viii.,pl. cxxxiv., fig. 1 ; O.Wils., pi. xxv., 



fig. 10. 



Newman, for some unexplained reason, attaches no scientific 



